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CAFFÈ BOLERO

LAST week my colleague visited a restaurant keen on serving deserts. This week, in an effort to rebalance the shortage of consonants, I tried a cafe that likes to be spelt with two fs.

Extra fricatives aside, I wish this place had been about when my children were small. It reminds me of Edinburgh during the Festival Fringe – the place was humming, rather than buzzing and it was a
real plus point that the background music was precisely that.

And all of humanity was in there. From Guardian readers to Sun readers; from ladies who lunch to students not really paying much attention to the thick books lying in front of them; from a man
attached umbilically to his laptop to a small boy making the most of his tasty cake before getting out his toy car, everyone was enjoying themselves.

We went on a Saturday lunchtime – not perhaps the most judicious piece of planning on our part but hey, if a caf(f)è can cope well at the busiest time of the week then any plaudits are well
deserved.

The menu is straightforward with most mains ranging from £3.99 up to £6.99 and a decent choice of cakes to enjoy as dessert.

My wife opted for a plain panini with roast sliced peppers, Mediterranean vegetables and goats’ cheese while my brother-inlaw and I both selected from the daily specials board – and both chose the
same thing, linguine with ham in a carbonara sauce.

The dishes arrived with a minimum of fuss in what seemed like only minutes after we had ordered them at the efficient front desk and they were piping hot without being mouth-searing.

Even if they had been just too hot, we could have helped ourselves from the free iced water on the sideboard to cool things down. The coffees, both the cafe mocha and the cappuccino, earned a big
thumbs-up from my wife.

My brother-in-law, a connoisseur of hot chocolate who’s spent the last 12 months in and out of Canadian coffee shops (mostly in), gave both the regular and caramel flavour big pass marks.

The only slight letdown was my large diet coke, which a) wasn’t that large and b) came with a straw – and even in the half-light, my grey hair is obvious.

The service came with a variety of accents and always with a smile.

The total bill for the three of us was about £25 – money well spent for a cosmopolitan hour or so on an autumn weekend.

Comments

Fricatives ? Blimey, someone must have been saving that word for ages waiting for a chance to use it! I have always been hoping for someone to say to me 'What does PTFE stand for? (as in PTFE tape), but no-one ever has. So I'm telling you now that its polytetrafluorethyle
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By the way, why is there no name for the author of this article?

Fricatives ? Blimey, someone must have been saving that word for ages waiting for a chance to use it! I have always been hoping for someone to say to me 'What does PTFE stand for? (as in PTFE tape), but no-one ever has. So I'm telling you now that its polytetrafluorethyle
ne.
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By the way, why is there no name for the author of this article?CJH

Fricatives ? Blimey, someone must have been saving that word for ages waiting for a chance to use it! I have always been hoping for someone to say to me 'What does PTFE stand for? (as in PTFE tape), but no-one ever has. So I'm telling you now that its polytetrafluorethyle
ne.
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By the way, why is there no name for the author of this article?

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cargiftworld
6:54pm Mon 7 Nov 11

"People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.

"People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.cargiftworld

"People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.

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Maggie Would
12:28pm Wed 9 Nov 11

cargiftworld wrote…

"People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.

cargiftworld, if you read the previous review you will understand the joke :-)

[quote][p][bold]cargiftworld[/bold] wrote:
"People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.[/p][/quote]cargiftworld, if you read the previous review you will understand the joke :-)Maggie Would

cargiftworld wrote…

"People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.

cargiftworld, if you read the previous review you will understand the joke :-)

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cargiftworld
10:03pm Wed 9 Nov 11

Maggie Would wrote…

cargiftworld wrote…

"People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.

cargiftworld, if you read the previous review you will understand the joke :-)

[quote][p][bold]Maggie Would[/bold] wrote:
[quote][p][bold]cargiftworld[/bold] wrote: "People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.[/p][/quote]cargiftworld, if you read the previous review you will understand the joke :-)[/p][/quote]My comment refers to the review. I'm pretty sure there aren't any jokes in there. Maybe I'm missing something.cargiftworld

Maggie Would wrote…

cargiftworld wrote…

"People in glass houses.."; some of the spelling in here could do with an extra consonant. Which deserts were they serving, Ghobi, Sahara? No wonder the free water was so popular.

cargiftworld, if you read the previous review you will understand the joke :-)

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